Re: [aclug-L] Solaris

[Bob Deep <bobd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Goerzen wrote:
> 
> Well.  It took me a little while to reply because I am trying to
> figure out how to say this nicely :-)
> 
> My opinion of Solaris is not very high.  I've witnessed it to Very
> Nasty things, crash, soak up RAM and disk space for no good reason,
> etc.  I think that you are much better with Linux unless you are doing
> something like SMP with 8 or more CPUs that happen to be UltraSparcs.
> 

I'm inclined to agree, though Solaris does offer better Java support at
this point.

The major problems I see with moving to Solaris is that it supports a
much more limited hardware base, no support options I can afford, and it
is somewhat more resource intensive than Linux. (At least on the X86
platform).

On the other hand... If you need Java 1.2, your choices are between
Operating Systems that cost money and solaris....  Linux does not yet
support 1.2, nor is a release of it seem to be even close.

For now, I dual boot at home...

-= bob =-
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